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  1. Cross browser? on Dart 1.0 Released · · Score: 0

    How is Dart cross browser? It only runs in Chrome. Does having a cross compiler to JS make it cross browser? That'd make any language cross browser, which is to stretch the definition to the point of meaninglessness.

    Javascript isn't rocket science to use. You've just got to put in the effort to read a couple books to understand that it requires different design strategies from other OO languages. The scoping, prototypes, and events are actually really nice if you bother to learn how to use them properly.

  2. Re:Bike & bikepaths anyone? on UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians · · Score: 1

    It's no problem for people in Copenhagen. Minneapolis also has a pretty big modal share for bikes, in American terms. The infrastructure and vehicles are cheap to build, take up little space, are far less deadly, and cause no air or noise pollution. I'd love to see bike infrastructure built up everywhere.

    http://www.copenhagenize.com/2010/11/copenhagen-cycling-in-snow.html

  3. No, I'm reading e-books on Safari so that this meeting isn't a total waste

  4. The needs of the business on Larry Page and Sergey Brin Are Lousy Coders · · Score: 2

    more interested in writing code that works than code that's maintainable

    That's how business works in general. You want to write good code, but deadlines and shifting goalposts turn all your best plans into a swamp.

  5. Re:I'd care but... on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 2

    More than 4 gig of memory is a waste for a browser.

    Obviously you are not a serious Javascript experimenter! Now that we've got canvas, WebGL, web workers, and audio, there's plenty of memory intensive stuff we can do inside the browser. The only limiting factors that distinguish web pages from real applications nowadays are your understanding of Javascript and how shitty of a browser you're willing to target.

  6. Re:I can't remember on Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android · · Score: 4, Informative

    Web Audio API actually is an interesting feature.

    See some of it in action: http://mohayonao.github.io/timbre.js/

  7. Chebarkul was an inside job on 1.5 Meter Long Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Lake · · Score: 2

    Why didn't the meteorite leave a hole exactly the same size and shape as the object itself?
    Clearly this means explosives were used in a controlled demolition of the lake's frozen surface.

  8. Re:Burning bridges on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    you are NOT 'the company' and the company is not you

    The wasted hours of our lives are all that the company is made of, even if we do not have a claim to it.

  9. Re:Dumbasses on NSA Recruitment Drive Goes Horribly Wrong · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look at those dumbasses who believe in something bigger than getting a high paying job as a spook.

    Fuck you.

  10. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do you really think they'd try this shit if there was a well-organized, fighting working class? No way. They only do it because they think they can get away with it.

  11. Re:Tax Breaks on German IT Firm Seeks Autistic Workers · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're betting they can get away with paying a terrible salary to people that have a hard time finding a job due to their disability. It's a business model that's worked well at Goodwill

    http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/208068/189/Goodwill-Pays-Disabled-Employees-Less-than-Minimum-Wage

  12. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    We're talking about compensation in this comment thread. Welcome.

  13. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 5, Funny

    While you're at it, ditch this "high deductible" scam and get some real health insurance

  14. Re:Fraud on LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers · · Score: 1

    While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

  15. Re:How's this DRM? on DRM Chair Self-Destructs After 8 Uses · · Score: 1

    There isn't anything "digital" about a chair

    There is if it's got an embedded microprocessor for managing your rights!

  16. Re:GO UNIONS! on Hostess To Close; No More Twinkies · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's much more than just "a cut"

    The contract Hostess wants to impose on BCTGM workers includes:

            -- An immediate 8 percent wage cut.

            -- Shifting 20 percent more of health care costs onto the workers (for some workers, this would mean an increased cost of $240 a month for medical insurance).

            -- Eliminating retiree Medigap insurance, which covers gaps in Medicare.

            -- Eliminating Pension Supplement to pay health and funeral costs.

            -- Closing an undisclosed 10 to 12 plants.

            -- Eliminating the eight-hour day, which would mean no time-and-a-half pay after eight hours per day.

    In addition, the company illegally froze pension contributions mandated under the contract for all of 2012, in violation of federal law. This is still being contested before the National Labor Relations Board.

    http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/15/hostess-workers-draw-a-line

  17. Re:Perhaps on 72% of Xbox 360 Gamers Approve of "More Military Drone Strikes" · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's your stupid fucking opinion, but here's the facts:

    "The study by Stanford Law School and New York University's School of Law calls for a re-evaluation of the practice, saying the number of "high-level" targets killed as a percentage of total casualties is extremely low -- about 2%."

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/world/asia/pakistan-us-drone-strikes/index.html

  18. Re:DO NOT LET THIS FALL INTO THE THE WRONG HANDS on Einstein Letter Critical of Religion To Be Auctioned On EBay · · Score: 2

    DO NOT LET THIS FALL INTO THE HANDS OF RELIGIONSISTS who constantly use out of context quotes by Einstein to "prove" he variously a... fundie, believed

    Just remind them of this
    http://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism

  19. Re:I'm fond of Jacobin's article on the topic on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia claims he has both German and Finnish citizenship
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom

  20. I'm fond of Jacobin's article on the topic on NZ Broke the Law Spying On Kim Dotcom, PM Apologizes · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Megaupload's Kim Dotcom, a willfully tacky fat guy with a baby face and a vanity license plate that says "guilty," has styled himself as a kind of comic villain, a composite of everything people love to hate. He effectively serves as empire's face of piracy: an overweight nouveau-riche wannabe hacker who finally gets his comeuppance through the macho justice of Uncle Sam. It's so easy to hate Kim Dotcom that you almost forget that the US convinced the New Zealand government to send in an assault brigade, bereft of a valid warrant but outfitted with automatic weapons and helicopters, to arrest a Finnish citizen at the demand of Hollywood studios. If Kim Dotcom didn't exist, the FBI, with the help of the MPAA, would have invented him."

    http://jacobinmag.com/2012/08/gimme-the-loot/

  21. Re:ok now.. dont go apeshit at me here.. on Beer Is Cheaper In the US Than Anywhere Else In the World · · Score: 1

    Political activists love to get together and drink and argue, in my experience

  22. Re:Shoot me now. on Salesforce CEO Benioff: Future Software Will Look Like Facebook · · Score: 1

    I use software to create paychecks. Whatever floats your boat, I guess.

  23. Re:Demo video on Cinnamon 1.6 Brings New Features and Applets · · Score: 1

    the ultimate version of the Windows 95-like UI.

    lxde

  24. Re:Wow on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1
  25. Re:It's not broken. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    A clone from what? People use Windows outside the IT department.